On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 09:44:49AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 05:21:59PM +0200, Stephan Seidl wrote: > > A victim of the cleaning operation is the option `aic7xxx=reverse_scan' > > which is still documented, but, which does no longer work. Here is some > > output. > > > > Since `aic7xxx=reverse_scan' is part of my disaster recovery concept, > > I would like to ask whether anybody has the resources to reactivate > > this driver option as it was before ? > > The documentation should be removed ;-) > > It's a simple choice between reverse_scan and supporting PCI hotplug. > You can't have both, and we chose the latter. The same choice has been > made in virtually every other device driver. > > I'm afraid you're going to have to change your concept. Or you could submit a patch to implement a reverse scanning option in the core PCI code.. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html